Our charity for the 2015 Fire & Feast MBN Sanctioned BBQ Competition in Yazoo City, Mississippi, has been chosen. Your support of our event will help support the Boys & Girls Clubs of the MS Delta Yazoo City Unit!

In more big news for Fire & Feast, we are SO thrilled to be able to officially announce CF Industries as our Fire Sponsor for 2015. Stay tuned here and to our page on Facebook for great information about this company and the many reasons we are happy to have them here in Yazoo! Thanks, CF Industries, for all of your support over the years!

Also, it’s not too late to get your team’s application in to us for a chance to win free entry! Deadline is July 1st (tomorrow!), and we will draw on July 2nd! For more details, see our page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fireandfeast

Thanks for being a loyal supporter of BBQ in the Mississippi Delta! We can’t wait to see everyone again on September 11th & 12th, and we are so excited to give away this $21,325 to some very talented teams!! But remember…you’ve got to be IN it to WIN it!

How is smoking pork in Yazoo City better than a piggy bank full of money?…

The payout is MUCH better!!

As you may already know by now, our event has gone through some major changes for 2015. We’ve trimmed away the big stage with multiple acts on Friday night in exchange for MORE PRIZE MONEY and even bigger perks for our valued sponsors. This is what you call a WIN/WIN!!

Another big change has come to one of our BBQ divisions. Our Backyard competition, which was previously divided into Backyard and First Responders, has been streamlined to become one Backyard Division. This means HUGE prize money for any team who scores in our top 3 of the Backyard competition. Where else can you send off a box of ribs for blind judging, and walk home with up to $1,000??

First place in Backyard will take home a One THOUSAND Dollar ($1,000) check AND one of our unique trophy “Hog Callers” hand made by Mississippi craftsman Paul Meek and his daughter T’Mara!

The Backyard division’s Second place winner receives a Five Hundred Dollar ($500) prize as well as one of our hand-made trophies, and Third place receives a trophy and a Two Hundred Dollar ($200) prize. We know of NO OTHER Backyard competition with that kind of prize money. This is the perfect opportunity for you and your friends or family to get started in competition barbecue, meet some Top 10 Memphis Barbecue Network teams, and learn what the competition barbecue world is all about. Get your team ready!

As always, our MBN Professional Competition is open to all teams, and has some of the biggest prize money in Mississippi! Check out the cash prizes and more at www.fireandfeast.org/trophies then get those applications in ASAP! Space IS LIMITED in all divisions, and once our spaces are full, we can not accept additional teams. You’ve got to be IN IT to WIN IT!!

We’re pretty sure that everyone knows this, but just in case there’s anyone out there who doesn’t already know how important sponsors are to events like Fire & Feast, we had to take the time to say it.

Our Sponsors ROCK!

Most of our sponsors for 2014 have been with us since the very beginning, and ALL have repeatedly sponsored our event. Our sponsors know how much this event does for our community, and the kind of financial impact that it has for everyone who works, lives, and owns a business in Yazoo.

So, from the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU! We truly could not do this without you, and we are so grateful that you take the time (and the money) to support this local event.

Word just cannot say enough… but we hope our friends and fans will take the time to visit them on the web and in person, and show them your appreciation.

The 2014 MBN Trophies are ready and waiting for YOU! We have been able to draw in some of the top MBN teams each year, and we know that’s because of our BIG prize money – but we’d also like to think it has a little to do with our coveted Bobby Rico Knives custom trophies. *smile*

This year’s trophies have been made even more special with the inclusion of the Grand Champion’s first-ever Rico Knives Cleaver!

Bobby Rico, maker of our MBN trophies, is a resident of Yazoo County, Mississippi, and a member of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi. His work has been featured in Garden & Gun magazine’s holiday gift guide, as well as many other publications including Delta Magazine, Delta Business Journal, and other hunting and outdoor magazines.

Each of the trophy knives, one each for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the Whole Hog, Shoulder and Ribs categories, feature Bobby Rico’s signature styling, including a hand-made handle crafted of various woods, bone, and other fine materials, and the tell-tale feather patterning of Damascus steel in the blades. Each is truly a work of art that any of our teams would be proud to win.

But, you’ve got to be IN it to WIN it! We’ve got $20,875 in CASH prizes up for grabs. Applications are due by the end of August, so get them in ASAP. Spaces are limited! Click the link below right now to head to the Applications page.

Applications are NOW available! Visit the Applications page or download your applications and info from the menu on the left. Remember, applications for the MBN Professional Competition, the Backyard BBQ Competition, and the First Responders BBQ competition are due in our office by August 29, 2014. Space IS LIMITED.!

Be sure to also download for your TEAM RULES AND INFO – included is the prize structure, judging schedule, and other information for your reference.

Speaking of prize structure… we will leave you with this INCREDIBLE break-down of the $20,875 in CASH plus other prizes available at Fire & Feast BBQ Competition in Yazoo City, Mississippi, on September 5 & 6, 2014!

Applications for all 3 BBQ competitions, including the 5 Ancillary categories, will be posted soon. Get your application in to us ASAP for your chance to win a share of the $20,875 in CASH prizes being awarded on September 6 in Yazoo City, Mississippi, at the 4th Annual Fire & Feast BBQ Competition & Festival. Spaces ARE limited. We’ll be sure to post again, right here, when the applications are available.

In the mean time, if any of you out there in the big dubya-dubya-dubya would like to apply to vend FOOD at Fire & Feast, this is your chance to apply. Complete the application linked below, and send in to us for approval. You will be contacted ASAP by our festival chair.

For now, we’ll leave you with this priceless photo from a 2012 caption contest on the Fire & Feast page on Facebook (yes, it’s almost that time again!). Our Chairwomen, Tonja Smith of Yazoo County CVB, and Leslie Scott of Ubon’s Barbeque of Yazoo, are two peas in a pod. Aren’t they precious?!?

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Our Mission: To bring competition BBQ teams from across the United States to Yazoo City, Mississippi, to give back to our community, and to celebrate a love of the BBQ lifestyle in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.